The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-10
CURRENT EVENTS.

The catch OF shad In the Delaware river last
week was the heaviest for three years.
In New York the real-estate sales fos the
$50, 900, 900.
II 10 said that the present to ex-Secretary
Manning from the treasury employees will be
punch-bowl
NJ. Pasteur says he has treated five hundred
hydrophobia cases with his cure this year and
lost only one.
Jay Gould is the owner Of ten thousand
acres OF land In Arkansas, located In three
different counties.
| Over $50 natural-gas and oil companies have
been organized In the state Of Ohio during
The past sixteen months.
Fire is again eating away the forests OF New
Jersey, this time In the vicinity of Waterford
where hundreds of acres Of fine timber lands
have been burned over during the past few
days.
Two and half million shad eggs have been
sent to the New York fish hatchery by Prof.
Baird, OF the United States commission. Az
ter incubation they will be deposited in the
waters Of the Upper Hudson.
A Boston disciple OF Esculapius says cotton
stockings are the bane OF New England wo.
men, and advises the ladies to cast them of
and 20 barefooted rather than wear an article
that destroys them with rheumatism and neu-
ralga.
In 1851 there was one blind person In En-
gland to every 919 Of the population; in 1861
one to every 1,037; in 1871, one to 1,052, and
In 1881, one to /, 1888. 1t costs the government
500, 600 year to maintain blind people In
the almhouses.
The telephone wire between Brussels and
Paris was put TO fraternal use recently by the
advantage Of a microphonc. The Partisan
people, being invited to listen to band OF
music in Brussels, heard over the wire
French melody and heard 1t SO distinctly that
not a note was missed.
They have found bottomless pit on the
line OF the Carthage and Adirondack railway,
New York, into which they have dumped
three hundred carloads Of stone and gravel.
No sooner do they get the hole filed up and
the roadbed apparently safe than the whole
thing disappears under water.
George Bubear, the English champion oars.
man, thinks that the Harvard crew would be
badly beaten In u race with the Cambridge
crew, should one take place, while Hosmer,
one OF the few good scullers in this country,
says the Cambridge crew is not invincible,
and that Harvard could give 1t the closest
race II ever had.
The Bangor Commercial says one Maine
clergyman had quite an experience during the
food He started to preach In n neighboring
town last Sunday, and after riding several
miles came to bridge that was foot under
water. His horse refusing to 60 over 1t, the
preacher took off his boots and stockings
rolled up his pants and waded across, leading
his horse.
noted Washington mesmerist, writing to
friend in that city from the City OF Mexico,
SAYS that on April IS he had $500 house in
the City of Mexico but the interpreter got
frightened and did not adequately explain
things, the supersiitious and ignorant
audience howled for their money back and
threatened arrest, and the mesmcrist left
next morning for the States
New York business signs present some curl
Gus condolences. Taylor & Cutter is
clothing firm in the Bowery. dealer In
curled hair is named Wlcomb. A Bleecker
street sign reads 81. Godlovc." OF metropol-
itan mllk-deaers, one is Well and another
Water. Currie & Rice do business together
Manhelp is name on sign next to one
bearing the name OF Godlove on Broadway.
A young man who had been hanging around
Washington trying to get q sl,.00 clerkship
til his money was all gone, recently received
an offer OF $50 month to go to Birmingham,
Ala, as tally clerk. A friend loaned him
500 to pay his board bill aud get out OF town
with, and he went In few days his
"bossn at Birmingham loaned him
money 10 buy lot Of land with,
and week later he sold II for upward OF ST.
o06 advance.
In Danbury, Conn, there Is pair OF twins
that not only look and speak exactly alike, bus
are peculiarly attached to one another. They can
not be separated q single day without longing
for each others society, and yet they are both
married now. II one is upon one street and
the other is upon different one they can tell
by some electrical affinity whether they are
approaching each other or getting further
apart When one is sick the other is more or
less similarly affected.
Two years ago A. r. Ledoux, Of New York
city, purchased an an evening paper from
boy on Wall street, and handed him silver
dollar. The lad had no change, and went into the
stationery store OF Theodore +. Henderson to
get IT, He came out and gave the chemist
the change. When Mr.. Ledoux awoke the
next morning he found q counterfeit half
dollar In his pocket, and Immediately had
Mr. Henderson arrested aud locked up Soon
after the stationer sued Ledoux In the sup.